"Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission."

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"Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission."

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"The history of man is a must read poetry."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."

Lawrence Durrell, British Writer

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"History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat."

Rosa Luxemburg, Polish Activist

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"The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."

Auguste Rodin, French Sculptor

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Explore more quotes by Lion Feuchtwanger

"What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity."

Development, Facts, Humanity

"I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one."

Reflection, Accuracy, Attention, Detail, Effort

"An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary."

Being, Day, Events, Past

"Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission."

History, Answers

"Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves."

History, Blind, Majority, Minority

"Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects."

Reflection, Literary, Youth

"There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime."

Reflection, Leading, Road

"I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific."

History, Debate, Open, Writing

"An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic."

Action, Logic, Right, Wrong

"After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones."

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